Wednesday, July 22

Presenters will have 29 minutes to present, followed 10 minutes of discussion from the "room", followed by 1 minute for transition to the next speaker. Since the discussion time is compressed this year, people with a question are strongly encouraged to submit their questions to the organizer (hoxby@nber.org) at least 24 hours before the meeting starts so that they can be prioritized and combined if multiple people have similar questions.

1:00 pm

Have Income-Based Achievement Gaps Widened or Narrowed? (slides)

Thomas J. Kane, Harvard University and NBER
Douglas O. Staiger, Dartmouth College and NBER
Shirin A. Hashim, Harvard University
Thomas Kelley-Kemple, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Mary E. Laski, Harvard University

1:40 pm

The Roles of Information and Preferences in Household Demand for School Value Added (slides)

Robert Ainsworth, University of Florida
Rajeev H. Dehejia, New York University and NBER
Cristian Pop-Eleches, Columbia University and NBER
Miguel Urquiola, Columbia University and NBER

2:20 pm

Monopsony Power in Higher Education: A Tale of Two Tracks (slides)

Austan Goolsbee, University of Chicago
Chad Syverson, University of Chicago and NBER

3:00 pm

The Returns to College(s): Estimating Value-Added and Match Effects in Higher Education (slides)

Brent R. Hickman, Washington University in St Louis
Jack Mountjoy, University of Chicago and NBER

3:40 pm

The Consequences of Student Loan Credit Expansions: Evidence from Three Decades of Default Cycles (slides)

Adam Looney, University of Utah
Constantine Yannelis, University of Cambridge

4:20 pm

Adjourn

Thursday, July 23

9:00 am

Long-Term Effects of Teachers: Evidence from a Random Assignment of Teachers to Students (slides)

Victor Lavy, University of Warwick and NBER
Rigissa Megalokonomou, Monash University

(paper not available)

9:40 am

Correlation Neglect in Student-to-School Matching (slides)

Alex Rees-Jones, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Ran Shorrer, Pennsylvania State University
Chloe J. Tergiman, Pennsylvania State University

10:20 am

Uncovering Public School Objectives (slides)

Hugh Macartney, Duke University
Robert McMillan, University of Toronto and NBER
Uros Petronijevic, York University

11:00 am

Private Schooling, Learning and Civic Values in a Low-Income Country (slides)

Natalie Bau, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Tahir Andrabi, Pomona College
Jishnu Das, Georgetown University and NBER
Asim Khwaja, Harvard University and NBER

11:40 am

Social Costs of Proactive Policing: The Impact of NYC's Stop and Frisk Program on Educational Attainment (slides)

Andrew Bacher-Hicks, Boston University
Elijah de la Campa, Harvard University

12:20 pm

Adjourn